Currently it is not possible to use the boto3 library to access a bucket within another tenant on our object store. 


In this page you will find documentation about the boto3 library, the AWS SDK for python. You can use it to access swift using the S3 API.

You can install the boto3 library by:

pip install boto3

Information on the S3 part of this library is at: http://boto3.readthedocs.io/en/latest/reference/services/s3.html

Below you find a piece of example code to:

  • list buckets

  • create a bucket

  • upload an object

  • adapt object metadata

  • get metadata

  • list the objects in a bucket

  • download an object

  • delete an object

  • delete a bucket


#!/usr/bin/python3
import boto3
import json

b3bucket='boto3bucket'
b3object='boto3object'
b3file='boto3file'

resource = boto3.client('s3',
                        'default',
                        endpoint_url='https://objectstore.surf.nl',
                        aws_access_key_id='ACCESS_KEY',
                        aws_secret_access_key='SECRET_KEY')
print ('\n\n')



# Print list of buckets
print ('Print list of buckets')
response=resource.list_buckets()
print (json.dumps(response, indent=4,sort_keys=True, default=str))
print ('\n\n')

# Create bucket
print ('Create bucket '+b3bucket)
response=resource.create_bucket(Bucket=b3bucket)
print ('\n\n')

# Upload file to bucket
#    this automatically takes care of multipart uploading if that is necessary
print ('Upload file '+b3file+' to bucket as object '+b3object)
with open(b3file, 'rb') as data:
    resource.upload_fileobj(data, b3bucket, b3object)
print ('\n\n')

# Set metadata
print ("Set metadata 'my-new-key=my-new-value' to object "+b3object)
copy_source = {
    'Bucket': b3bucket,
    'Key': b3object
}
resource.copy(
    copy_source, b3bucket, b3object,
    ExtraArgs={
        "Metadata": {
            "my-new-key": "my-new-value"
        },
        "MetadataDirective": "REPLACE"
    }
)
print ('\n\n')

# Get metadata
print ('Get metadata of '+b3object)
response=resource.head_object(Bucket=b3bucket, Key=b3object)
print (json.dumps(response['Metadata'], indent=4,sort_keys=True, default=str))
print ('\n\n')

# List objects in bucket
print ('List objects in bucket '+b3bucket)
response=resource.list_objects(Bucket=b3bucket)
print (json.dumps(response, indent=4,sort_keys=True, default=str))
print ('\n\n')

# Download object
print ('Download object '+b3object+' as file '+b3file+'_downloaded')
with open(b3file+'_downloaded', 'wb') as data:
    resource.download_fileobj(b3bucket, b3object, data)
print ('\n\n')

# Delete object
print ('Delete object '+b3object)
response=resource.delete_object(Bucket=b3bucket,Key=b3object)
print ('\n\n')

# Delete bucket
print ('Delete bucket '+b3bucket)
response=resource.delete_bucket(Bucket=b3bucket)
print ('\n\n')



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